History coverage
The Golden Triangle
IN 1936, Mallawa Amateur Picnic Race Club president Charles Jardine, a former amateur Australian heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Games representative turned western districts sheep grazier, won the opening race as an owner at Mallawa with Spear Loch. On Saturday, his 91-year-old daughter, Dorothy Wiseman, arrived unheralded at the Mallawa races to relive the memories [...]
The Golden Triangle
BEFORE Mallawa came along in 1930 and joined Talmoi and Moree picnic race clubs on bush racing’s Golden Triangle, meetings were held a short distance away at Spring Plain during the very early 1900s. There is also evidence of picnic racing at Bullarah as far back as 1915. But at Spring Plain, about 28 miles [...]
Our Community
THE man most people knew as CWT will be remembered in a gathering at Moree Cemetery later this month to acknowledge a plaque on his gravesite. Charles William Thompson – ‘Charlie’ to many – passed away in 2017. He was an amazing man, who stumbled into Moree by accident in 1963. Charlie was heading north [...]
Our Community
A project more than two years in the making was officially opened on Thursday, when NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Paul Pisanos and Moree local Fred Pegus Junior proudly unveiled the Moree Aboriginal Tracker Wall at Moree Police Station. The honour wall, alongside the front doors of Moree Police Station, recognises all Aboriginal trackers who [...]
Moree History
THE second edition of Stories of our Town, chronicling the diverse and rich history of the Moree Plains, will be released soon. The local studies journal, a collaboration between Moree Plains Shire Council and Big Sky Libraries, has been compiled and edited by local studies and digitisation officer, Adam Mitchell, and will be available in [...]
History
STEVE Francis staggered from the burning building, choking and coughing. The 48-year-old shearers’ cook saw dozens of people milling around, watching helplessly as the Rowena Hotel burned to the ground. There was nothing the onlookers could do to save the wooden building. Rowena, a small farming village about 25 miles south-east of Collarenebri in north-western [...]
Lest We Forget
MOREE RSL Regional Military Museum will be open to the public on Anzac Day after commemorative marches and services are completed. Local RSL Sub-Branch president John Williams invites the public to drop by the museum and take a look at the hundreds of exhibits on display. “The museum will be open on Anzac Day in [...]
Local History
When arguments and debates arise about 21st century climate change, it seems nothing much has changed at all during the past 200 years – not across Moree’s black-soil plains, anyway. The devastating drought of 2018 and 2019, which affected most of eastern Australia, is regarded the worst in Australia’s history. Moree’s flood in 2012 was [...]
League Reunion
IT was one of the rare moments in Moree’s deep 1970s rugby league history that saw the scoresheet tarnished. The 1970s was an incredible decade for The Big M, with 16 grand-final wins across four grades. Moree swept to an A-grade premiership win in 1972, ahead of a hat-trick of grand-finals in 1977, 1978 and [...]
Local History
DEBATE over whether Moree Shire Council should invest millions of dollars and build a 50-metre swimming pool complex at Taylor Oval continues. But spare a thought for Moree Municipal Council when the local bore baths – now Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre – made headlines around Australia in 1934. At the time, mayor Percy Mellor had [...]
